Identify and Patch Software Security Vulnerabilities Quickly with Vulnerability Assessment and Automated Patch Deployment

Patch Management Business Issues and Challenges

As IT environments have become increasingly complex, supporting virtual, distributed and disparate platforms, companies must ensure that they maintain control of their information and system management. IT organizations often manage multiple point-based technologies, which add complexity and cost. A new approach is required to simplify the IT environment and ensure enhanced security and IT risk management with the lowest total cost of ownership possible.

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Such a solution is particularly important to effectively manage and implement the flood of software vulnerabilities, patches and configurations to reduce your threat exposure. With software companies shortening application and OS lifecycles and prematurely releasing versions, the number of bugs and design flaws is growing exponentially. In fact, an average of 19 new vulnerabilities are released per day.¹ Plus, the proliferation of Web 2.0 and social networking have created new avenues to introduce malware into the workplace.

To ensure that systems remain configured and remediated correctly against the ever growing list of application and OS vulnerabilities, a solution is needed that automates discovery, assessment and remediation for heterogeneous environments and alerts busy IT administrators to issues proactively so they can address them immediately.

Overview

Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite delivers an end-to-end suite of solution capabilities across endpoint operations, security, compliance and IT risk management to reduce complexity, optimize TCO, improve visibility and deliver control back to IT.

Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite: Patch and Remediation, which is the worldwide market share leader in patch management solutions, provides rapid, accurate and secure patch management, allowing you to proactively manage threats in the most complex of environments. This is efficiently achieved by automating the collection, analysis and delivery of patches, remediations and custom scripts throughout your enterprise. Lumension Patch and Remediation significantly decreases the costs involved in securing and reducing IT risk across your organization from worms, Trojans, viruses and other malicious threats and provides:

  • A single, intuitive management console for easy patch and remediation administration across multiple platforms, including Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS, as well as many applications
  • Integrated asset discovery for full network visibility and continuous control across both physical and virtual environments
  • Automated policy baselines to ensure that patches, configurations, remediations, and other tasks are continuously enforced
  • Extensibility and customization via Lumension® Content Wizard including power policy management, software deployment and removal, desktop configuration templates and custom task scripting
  • Enhanced Wake-on-LAN to provide complete visibility and control over powered down systems and ensure that critical patches and software updates are successfully deployed. When used in conjunction with Lumension Content Wizard, power management polices efficient patch management with maximum energy efficiency can be attained.

How it Works

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  • 1. Discover - Gain complete visibility of your heterogeneous network environment. Proactively discover all of your IT assets, both managed and unmanaged, through in-depth scans and flexible grouping and classification options.
  • 2. Assess - Proactively identify known issues before they can be exploited. Perform a deep analysis and thorough OS, application and security configuration vulnerability assessments.
  • 3. Prioritize - Focus on your most critical security risks first.
  • 4. Remediate - Automatically deploy patches to an entire network. Simplify the process of maintaining a secure environment by continuously monitoring, detecting and remediating policy-driven environments across all major platforms and applications.
  • 5. Report - Gain a holistic view your environmental risk. Access a full range of operational and management reports that consolidate discovery, assessment and remediation information on a single management console.
 
Source:
  1. National Vulnerability Database, March 20, 2009